AP’s Pace: Would Give Trump ‘Too Much Credit’ to Expect He Would Denounce Muslim Questioner

Julie Pace of the Associated Press reacted on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC to Donald Trump’s Obama Muslim question, saying it would be giving Trump ‘a little too much credit” to Trump to expect him to denounce the questioner for calling Obama a Muslim.

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“To some degree we’re maybe giving Trump a little too much credit. You have to remember where the Trump running for president phenomenon started, the birther movement. Almost to expect that he would [denounce] I think is giving him a little too much credit for what his real goals here probably are.”